18th Street Arts Center COVID-19 Response
Due to a spike in coronavirus cases in many California counties, including LA, Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered all museums and galleries (along with other indoor venues) to close.
Protecting our staff, artists, and visitors are of utmost importance, and we will reopen fully once it is safe to do so. Please note that our current exhibitions are open by appointment only, and our events are online for the moment.
To make an appointment to view an exhibition, please visit 18thstreet.org/exhibitions
and select the exhibition you would like to visit.
For current events, please visit 18thstreet.org/events.
In the meantime, we have brand-new exhibitions pages for our current shows so you can explore the them online, and we have lots of fantastic new content every week on our 18@Home and Arts Learning Lab @ Home channels.
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Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2018-2019, 18th Street Arts Center is one of the top 20 artist residency programs in the US, and the largest in Southern California. Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street supports artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public to foster radical imagination, empathy, and positive social change.
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FACING DARKNESS
In our darkest hours, it is natural and human to seek connection with others, to face the darkness together so that we can imagine a brighter path forward. In our current pandemic-time of crisis and isolation, this instinct can feel…
Patty Chang | Milk Debt
18th Street Arts Center is pleased to present a new solo exhibition of work by LA-based artist Patty Chang in the 18th Street Olympic Campus Main Gallery. With a new 5-channel film featuring 9 performers and lists of fears submitted…
Building Networks of Empathy
The exhibition Building Networks of Empathy is the second of a two-part show that asks us to consider the ways in which art empowers not only the artist, but its viewers to transform their most difficult experiences into enlightened outcomes.…
Beatriz Cortez & Kang Seung Lee | Becoming Atmosphere
Please sign up to make an appointment to visit the exhibition here. The air we breathe in, or inspire, has not only a mixture of gases but also the spirit of the time, which inspires us to produce the culture…
Beatriz Cortez and Kang Seung Lee | Becoming Atmosphere | Artist Talk
Artist Talk on Becoming Atmosphere Beatriz Cortez and Kang Seung Lee October 30, 2020 | 5 PM Zoom webinar In Becoming Atmosphere, Beatriz Cortez and Kang Seung Lee imagine disappearance as a process of transformation, movement, nomadism, and becoming. Considering…
Arts Learning Lab @ Home: Austyn de Lugo | Family History: Sewing & Collage
Austyn de Lugo Family History: Sewing & Collage Saturday, October 31, 2020 | 11am – 12pm Join us for a one hour workshop led by teaching artist Austyn de Lugo. In this collaborative intergenerational workshop between the Armory Center for…
Shirazette Tinnin // The Healing Sessions Livestream Concert
The Healing Sessions Shirazette Tinnin and the Sonic WallPaper Band Plus special guests Livestream concert at Christ Church Bronxville via FB Live at https://www.facebook.com/shirazette.tinnin And at 18thstreet.org/event/thehealingsessions (livestream will embed on this page - please bookmark!) November 7, 2020 at…
(Inter)Facing Darkness: a facilitated dialogue
(Inter)Facing Darkness: a facilitated dialogue Thursday, November 12 | 5 PM PST Online: Zoom | Facebook Live Curators, artists, activists, advocates, and scholars are invited to meet virtually to reflect on the public opening of Facing Darkness, and consider how…
Nung-Hsin Hu | Incurable Nostalgia
Incurable Nostalgia is a multimedia project, including a 16mm film loop installation, videos, drawings, and sculpture which the artist will produce during her 3-month long residency at the 18th Street Art Center. This project is a reflection of the artist's…
“Incurable Nostalgia” Dinner Party Conversation | Nung-Hsin Hu
Join us for an Incurable Nostalgia Dinner Conversation between Nung-Hsin Hu, Hitomi Iwasaki (Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the Queens Museum), Jessica Kairé (Artist and Co-founder of NuMu), and Frida Cano (Assistant Curator / Artist Residency Coordinator at 18th…
News
Farewell Lena Rodriguez!
Lena Rodriguez was our Curatorial Intern this summer. We asked her to share a reflection…
Farewell Fati Beck!
Fati Beck is our Getty Marrow Undergraduate Curatorial Intern this summer. This is their last…
18th Street Arts Center is Reopening on June 30, 2020
Following the guidance of the LA County Department of Health and their reopening guidelines for…